Resilience Montreal and the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal will host a public memorial at Cabot Square on November 28 at 12 p.m., calling on Montrealers to come together and honour unhoused community members who have died at the hands of the housing crisis and shortage of emergency homeless services.

More than 24 people have died in the last 18 months, according to the organizations, 70 per cent of whom were Indigenous.

They say the mounting housing crisis, lack of emergency shelter space, barriers to health care and systemic discrimination have created conditions that are increasingly deadly for those living on the streets.

“Dead people don’t enter housing,” said Resilience Montreal executive director David Chapman. “When the existing shelters and day centers are overcrowded, more

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